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PREHISTORIANS MEETING
IN HONGKONG · DURING 1941 CENTENARY
Remarkable Discoveries In Study of Early Man Revealed in Report
Hongkong will be the venue of the Fourth Congress of Pre- historians of the Far East.
The Third Congress was held in Singapore last January. ¡A Report of the proceedings, compiled by the Hongkong delegate, Mr. W. Schofield, was tabled in Legislative Council this after-
noon.
MARCH 9. 1938.
Soviet Embassy
Raid Planned
In Tientsin?
Moscow, Mar. 8.
The Tass Agency statem that according to information received from the Soviet Embnasy 113 China, the Japanese, with the assistance of White Guards, are preparing a new raid on the Roviet Consulate General Tientsin
in
In-
Provocatory assaults on dividual members of the Con- sulato staff, if they appear in the city, are also being prepared.-- Reuter,
JAPANESE PLANES
Mr. Schofield reveals in his report that the Congress has Shansi mission of bombing Japanese accepted the invitation of the Hongkong Government to meet in! this Colony in 1941, its centenary year.
Mr. Schofield's Report, states:
over the
part, bridges alj
Archipelago, across Torres Straits, and Bass Straits, The papers rend at the Third Con- during the Ice Age, which
demonstrated gress
fa of would have allowed early man to rapidly increasing development Far Eastern prehistory, the growing travel
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The Japanese plane shot down at
Interest it is arousing, and the speedy tribestensively, and such Jungle Huahslen was a three-seater bomber.
as the Negritos to reach Luzon Two of the occupants were killed
The other paper widening of its scope, emphasised by and Mindanau. the
Australian und dealt with the close typological re-and the third was seriously wounded presence
Intions between certain Australkin in the crash.
All the Chinese planes returned to Chinese delegates.
the flaked
the
"Sumatra"ouths Sumatra and
typq
most
Father
As usual, the more spectacular re-implements and those of the For their base safely. Central News.
Nether
notably sults were produced by the
East lands delegates; Dr. Callenfels, it is of Tongking;
the Toallan first described from revealed, dealt with
South the "protoneoliths," daked tools with sion of the Hongkong 'culture pro- Bnked implement culture in Celebes; Dr. van der Hoop with the polished edge, of Tongking and the vince being regarded as the Bronze Age culture of the N.E.J., and Archipelago. The conclusion reached important feature of this Congress so Dr. Willems with an urn burial site. was that a diffusion of culture, but far as local studies are
not of race, had taken place from Neither also in Celebes.
however, Cape York and the N.W. Australian Dr. von Koenigswald,
Swabue the interior. Rave the Congress is most important coast respectively into
The Straits delegates' contribution
a descrip Importance paper by far; a description of two
described, such as exist Father Maglioni's newly discovered skulls of Pithe-was small but important: a
Hongkong опе from the tion was given of an excavation at a in canthropus middle Pleistocene)
sites dealt flexed communication with site where a stratum Trinli beds and
the from Java,
lower burials and implements of Sumatra of the Swabue culture, the succession Pleistocene, dealing with
re-type was found underlying another of culture-phases so far as he can make them out, and the meaning of
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ands was any site of
with the
lation to Sinanthromis, and proving stratum with secondary burials and the signs found on what is called the
the falsity of recent views as to the tools of Haubinh (Tongking meso- non-humanity of the former genus of lithle) type, thus fixing the succes-"soft" pottery, which he interpreted as a rule as signs for magic protee- luminid. The older skull is that of slon of races and cultures in Perak,
tion of the vessel or its owner, or as Bes. The poltery
good wish emblems, such as nre com- a child, and presents features relating where the site it closely to the main stem of human found was also dealt with.
mon on modern Chinese articles of HONGKONG CONTRIBUTION descent, whereas the skulls of adulls
Hongkong delegates dealt with all sorts. The show comparatively marked speciali
the results of the Shek Pek excavn- zution.
tion, exhibiting plans and sections of AUSTRALIAN PAPERS The Australian delegates both read the site and photos of the objects and important papers; one on the present burials found; also with the relation
bronze culture the there, between state of prehistoric research
and the stone cultures describing the lending types of im- classical
itha
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It is clear, says the report, that prehistoric science in the East advancing rapidly, and that incumbent on governments to make permanent and professional provision for its study: it is emerg- ing
from
the stage in which amateurs NEXT CHANGE can make serious and valuable con-
In other words,
This last subject was also dealt with far as actual age goes, This 1 view that man in Australia is of moderate anti- by the Chinese delegate, whose contributions to it.
that there is no tribution showed that a culture closely museum with a competent curator is quity only, and
of that there. related to
Hongkong ex-now needed where one does not al- evidence of Pleistocene man
northwards through the ready exist, to take charge of finds tended
keep abreast of He also put forward the theory that terior of Fukien and Cheklung as already made, to
research, and to make Tasmanians arrived direct by from the New Caledonia region. In far the discussion that followed, much chow, with hard and soft pollery, scientifically acceptable researches in was said of the existence of land and stone tools; this immense exten- his own country.
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Ingenahi's "LA PERLA DEL ORIENTE" lo, Vice-Minister for War, in the them in London. H.
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Action, the nature of which was Dr. S. W. Ts'o, who were Hongkong's to the not divulged, is being taken by the representatives at the Coronation of
to "remedy the Their Majesties, expressed Japonese
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their to-day situation" 071 the Japanese-Soviet Legislative border at Saghallen, announced Mr. thanks for the hospitalliy shown to Dlet Reuter.
They asked His Excellency the Governor to convey a message to that effect to the Secretary of State for JAPANESE PAPER
Colonies. His Excellency acquiesced. ACCUSES FRENCH
JUNK SINKING CONCESSION POLICE
REPORT NOT YET RELEASED Government refused to indicate in they were accomplices of the mur-
afternoon derers of Chow Feng-chi, who, it was Legislative Counell this alleged had accepted the Japanese whether the report of the Commission offer to become Minister of War in which inquired into the alleged the new Nanking Government, ord sinking of a fishing junk feet by a contained in an editorial in the submarine near Hongkong on Sep- Japanese-owned newspaper, Shang-tember 21 last year would be released
for publication. hat Nippon.
Shanghai, Mar. 11.
French Accusations the
3. SMOKING TOBACCOS-all current brands, Concession police, alleging even, that
YANGTSE COMMANDER 4. PIPES specializing in DR. PAT
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Hankow, Mar. 9. Tear-Admiral Marquart, comman Two Italian priests are reported to have been killed yesterday morning der of the United States Yangise when a komb dropped by Japanese patrol since February, 1937, is leaving planes on Chengcow hit the Catholic by air for Hongkong to-day, en route Church outside the western city gute, to Amerien-Reuter.
Taking advantage of the clear sky ma
alter a night's mowfall, 12
12 Japanese planes attacked the city at dawn. landed at the Cathedral Church at They rained some 40 bombs at various Cheng Hain Street,
Hardly had the squadron of raiders places. About 30 of the misalies were
nimed at the Pelping-Hankow Rall-doparied than a second squadron of way and the Lungbai Railway three planes came over. But these stations, killing three civilians, and only reconnoltred over the city, No dropped-Central News. wounding several others. Two bombs bombs were
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The paper says that the French police who were on duty in the
In answer to questions by the Hon. vicinity of the incident did nothing Mr. M. K. Lo, the Colonial Secretary to prevent the lawless net or to arrest stated that the Report had been the offenders. The General received referred to the Secretary of State for the head the. Colonies for consideration by the several bullet wounds to and face and collapsed while his as Imperial Government.
"It is at present under considera- sassins made good their escape. The! General was not given first-aid treat- tion and no instructions, have yet ment. The attitude of the French been received as to its publication," authorities is arousing much atention the Colonial Secretary states.state In certain quarters, concludes the The Report was lasted by the Com-
mission on October 23, 1837273 paper. Reuter,
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